Cameo Roles and Mundane Affairs
I got this from Lurchie’s blog entry about 12 Things That Are True About Me Right Now. I reckon this could be a good mind exercise :p So here goes.
I keep counting the days ‘til my most favorite time of the year – Christmas! It just reminds of the good ol’ days, the feeling of waking up on Christmas morning finding my huge Christmas sock filled with gifts and candies, chocolates and whatnot. I could remember my very first gift – a blue bmx bike. My Christmas wish this year? A basket of Bath & Body goodies 
Want to donate? Send me a message and I’ll give you my home address. lol.
This is all I got so far:Mailed you a letter a long time ago,
Told you my heart’s desire that you must know
But I knew the letter didn’t reach your hands,
Now the moment’s gone leaving things undone.
Should I blame the postman?
Should I blame the storm?
I said I was sorry, I hope you know
10. Bath & Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar is driving me nuts right now (num!)
11. I’m wondering if Blithe will agree to trade her laptop with mine.
12. I have downloaded tons of Christmas songs and I keep playing them over and over again.
I’m done! 
Maybe next time I can do a list of 24 things. *Grins* I’m actually in search of 365 topics for blogging and share it with The Girl with Mud Smudged Cheeks. I hope to find one before the new years. Hey, join now and follow me in Plurk.
Photo Sharing: Finally, I got my hands on the Blackberry Bold I have been wishing for! Now, I’m singing a happy song Dudumdedum Dudumdedum…
I got my bbery from EbuyStore. They got a wide variety of phones from iPhones to Nokia. Just visit their site in case you’re in search of a new phone
I’d like to share this video which Junelle shared in plurk. It’s the best video I’ve seen on YouTube. A short one, yet powerful – True indeed, patience is a virtue.
Just as what the 6th Commandment says, Honor your father and mother. Try to understand and be patient with them. Show them love, show them respect.
My parents are always supportive of whatever I do. I can never repay them with the things they have provided me. Those are immeasurable things; things that are given out of love. And the best way to repay them is by showing them love and respect to the best I can. Courteous respect for my parents is one thing I believe I should always give. Why? Because respect is the key to harmony, love and happiness.
Even though sometimes I have misunderstandings with them, my mom in particular, it doesn’t change the fact that I will always need them. Without them, I wouldn’t exist. When my mom and I get into an argument I try my best to answer her in the nicest way I could think of :p. I don’t shout, I don’t raise my voice. Because I know at her age, she could really be sensitive. Sometimes when I feel like we’re going to be arguing about something, I walk away and come back later to iron out things. I stay away from trouble or I talk to her in a calm way. Those are the best solutions I can come up with. I maintain my cool because I don’t want to say something I might regret in the end.
I was talking to my mom earlier after I showed her the vid and she said, “As people grow old the younger ones must learn to be patient and understand them. I hope you and your sisters will give the same love and respect I showed my parents.” Then I answered back giving her a pat on the shoulder, “Yeah mum, I’ll keep telling you it’s a sparrow without losing my patience.”
Like what I said, they (parents and elders) can be super sensitive. Learn to be patient with them. They have been patient with you since you were born, why not do the same thing as they age? Parents are given by God to guide us and mold us into better people. Sometimes they keep reminding you of your wrongdoings, your faults and mistakes. I know it could be depressing and annoying listening to them enumerating all your faults. But on the other hand, the mistakes we did will remind us not to do it again. It reminds us of the lessons we learned and be more careful of what we do. At the end of the day, maintain that respect towards them. Keep it intact. Awful words can leave deep scars, you know, forever etched on their hearts and minds.
“The best thing to give to your to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to your child, a good example; to yourself, respect.”
I haven’t been writing lately. I feel stressed out I couldn’t think of anything else to share. This is just actually me, mumbling, talking to myself.
Fiesta is coming up in a couple of months and I’m thinking of investing in umbrella selling. Yes, promotional umbrellas. The idea came from my mom, actually. Then I thought – not a bad idea! I was convinced that it can be a good source of extra, extra income. Now all I got to look for is a good and reliable supplier. I’m just concerned about the cost of shipping since most of these suppliers are from Manila. I have not really thought of any cost-saving ways of getting these products to Mindanao. Oh well, I hope someone will come up with something. If you know a supplier of promotional items in Davao or General Santos, let me know! I’m pretty sure they are as good as those ones from Manila.
I need to relax. I need ice cream. Can someone be nice to me and take me to an ice cream parlor?:-)
..til next time.
All of us fear something – maybe one or two things. Some people fear heights, water, enclosed places, frogs etc. If you google it, there is this looooooooong list of phobias- from A to Z! Do you know there is this thing called Cacophobia – which is fear of ugliness. LOL. So, okay I have arachnophobia. I know most spiders are harmless but I have to admit, I really am a little Miss Muffet. How arachnophobic am I? I’m terrified at the sight of spiders. One look at a tiny spider makes me shiver. Even those tiny “jumpers” and daddy-long-legs freak me out. How much more if I see a tarantula? Yikes, I will surely faint! :-S Well, I naturally hate spiders. No bad experience, no nothing like that. I just don’t like them at all. I don’t like plastic spiders either. :p
What I do when I see spiders? I whack them with rolled news papers, slippers or anything I can get hold of. I like my room sealed. No holes, no vents, no cracks on the walls. I get squeamish at the idea of kids playing with spiders. I don’t like cobwebs around the house. As much as possible I keep my place clean. Like squeaky clean. I don’t like people teasing me with spiders. I whack them with newspaper too or sometimes with a firewood
Have you seen a big, dark brown one around your house that sort of looks like the brown recluse spider? Its body is as the size of your thumb, with long legs and sometimes carrying a sack of white cottony whatever thingy, probably her eggs. Now that one really can freak me out big time and can definitely scare the hell out of me. Armed with a broom and a huge can of bug spray, I think a hundred times on how to attack it. Seriously, it’s like I’m making my own battle plan. I call reinforcement if I have to. Well, okay so I usually call for help first.
So glad I found this:
SPIDERS 101: Keeping spiders at bay
OK — so you’ve tossed the spiders out of the house. Now how do you keep them out?
Turns out it’s not so easy.
“There are no sure, long-lasting control measures for spiders,” Vetter writes. The best defense, experts say, is to create a home that’s not hospitable to them. To that end, there are several things you can do:
1. Close the door. “Try to close all of those openings that a spider can come into,” Zack says. Walk around your house and think like a spider: Where could you slink in? Spiders frequently use the door — or the gaps around one, Brown says. “If you can see daylight around the door, it’s not a good seal.” Check whether screens are repaired.
Now look more closely around the house’s base. Air vents should be covered in fine hardware mesh that allows for circulation but keeps spiders out. Seal cracks in the foundation. Weep holes around pipes should be stuffed with steel wool, caulked or filled with foam. “That really will go a long way toward solving your problems,” Zack says.
2. Pull it back. Everybody likes a smooth path toward home. That goes for spiders, too. Deny them that. Trim shrubs adjacent to your house. That “will discourage spiders from first taking up residence near the structure and then moving indoors,” according to the University of California. And look up: Cut back tree limbs several feet from the house, Brown says. (That’s also good advice for keeping squirrels at bay.)
3. Clean up your act. “Both inside and outside, you want to just eliminate as much debris as possible,” Zack says. Why? Spiders generally don’t like wide open spaces. They prefer to hole up in dark little nooks and crannies. Behind stuff. In between things. Under clutter. “Human beings are very, very good at creating ideal situations for critters that were intended to live out of doors,” Zack says. When you remove hiding places, you make a place less inviting.
Outside: If possible, get rid of woodpiles (especially next to the house), tin cans, piles of cardboard and plywood. “Those are perfect places for insects,” Zack says.
Inside: Don’t make a pile of shoes in the closet — that’s practically an apartment complex for a spider — but instead hang them on one of those back-of-door shoe hangers, Zack says. Keep items from accumulating on the floor, including books. “Don’t allow things to build up,” Zack says. “Those are great habitats for spiders.
“A little organization will go a long way to helping to eliminate the problem.”
4. Take away their food. You can’t take away everything spiders dine on, experts say. But you can remove some of the obvious insects that make your home a supermarket. For instance, some outdoor lighting attracts insects, which then attracts spiders. “If possible, keep lighting fixtures off structures and away from windows and doorways,” says the University of California.
Next, figure out whether you have insects in the house, from flies to earwigs to fruit flies — and determine how to reduce their numbers, Brown says. If you have a lot of flies inside, you can reduce your spider population by fixing your screens, covering food and taking out the trash more often.
5. Take the fight to the bedroom. Small children and infants can be more vulnerable to the bites of spiders. And small children also spend more time in bed, where spiders seem to like to hang out. (Some brown recluse bites occur when a sleeping person rolls over on one, trapping it, says the University of California.) If you’re nervous about spiders in the bedroom, try these simple strategies:
6. Spray anyway? “If you are seriously afraid, and you do have problems with spiders — say you have an old home and you can’t close all of those openings — then I would talk to a reputable pest-control operator,” Zack says. A company can put perimeter sprays around the house — barriers that the spiders can’t cross, at least until the sprays wear off with time and weather.
Inside, the pros have “sorptive dusts containing amorphous silica gel (silica aerogel) and pyrethrins,” according to the University of California. Those dust particles dry out the spiders and insects that they touch. “When applied as a dustlike film and left in place, a sorptive dust provides permanent protection against spiders. The dust is most advantageously used in cracks and crevices and in attics, wall voids and other enclosed or unused places.
Do you think I like spiderman? Hmn, let’s just say I’m a batman kind of person.
What’s your phobia? Share it with me or better yet, find your Phobia here!
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”
— H.P. Lovecraft
